Ouroboros Spine Oh, this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees.

"i go on," kukutux said softly, the tears truly beginning now.

"if she cannot be here, i must, for rodyn, for rolayne, for panuk. if she cannot be here, then i must hold her family together. if she cannot be here, then i must carry the grief so that others might live their lives only in good rememberings of her face."

as it had been, not as it was in the end. 

"each day i think of her. i speak to her, in my mind. sometimes it feels as if she is still there, walking beside me."